"You actually reduce your knowledge by consuming news, Taleb argues" So the Post is actually making me dumb? I thought it was all the Scotch I've been drinking. All this time it was You! We're going to need to argue this out.

I wouldn't wrap a dead fish in a Wall Street paper. A lot of people on Wall Street will not either. They won't have a fish to wrap. It looks like instead of the world being flat, it was just New York going flat. Cities rise and fall. New York City is just a trip. No mercy.